Kato

Weekday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 22/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 6:10 / 21:39

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• JR Obama Line: one direction only

• JR Obama Line: Wakasa-Hongo ⇄ Seihama

Kato Station opened on 3 April 1921 as a general station on the Ministry-operated Obama Line when the section between Obama and Wakasa-Takahama was extended. Freight handling was withdrawn on 1 March 1961, and parcel handling and the passing loop were removed on 15 March 1973 when the station was destaffed. The station passed to JR West on 1 April 1987 with JNR privatisation. In 1995 a barber shop relocated into the former station office and the proprietors took on commissioned ticket sales and cleaning duties. The Kanazawa Branch announced its intention to withdraw the commission by fiscal 2030, and the station was formally made unstaffed on 1 April 2026.

The station once had an island platform with a passing loop; after the track on the station-building side was lifted, the disused rails and ballast were cleared and the space was turned into a cosmos flower bed by the barber-shop couple who look after the station.